A middle aged man, identified to www.calitowncom as Ubi Edet, has fallen to his death while painting the house of a member of the Cross River State Executive Council. Edet, while painting the country home of John Inyang, Cross River State Commissioner for Lands and Housing, in Idomi, Yakurr LGA, fell from one part of…
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One time Commissioner of Information in Cross River State, Akin Ricketts, who recently contested the senatorial primaries of the All Progressives Congress, APC, senatorial primaries for CR Central Senatorial District, annulled by a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, has refuted published claims in the media that he contested yesterday’s (December 17, 2022) rerun elections…
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Community sources in Ekureku, Abi Local Government Area, say more than 27 people are feared dead and a little over 40 remain in critical condition at the Eja Memorial Hospital, Itigidi, after a suspected Cholera outbreak, hit Ekureku, www.calitown.com can reveal. Worse hit are the Ekureku communities of Ngarabe, Akarefo, Agbara, Eminekpon, Anong Ekureku, Akarefo-Ezeke…
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The Cross River State Government has approved the elevation of 21 Directors in the state service to the rank of Permanent Secretary. In a memo from the Office of the Head of Service dated, December 16, 2022, with reference number, GO/HOS/97/Vol.1/49, under listed the following names as those elevated: Etim Effiong Ayi Ben Tawo Olom…
A Cross River State High Court sitting in Calabar and presided over by Justice Elais O. Abua, has restrained the Igbo community in the state from organising and holding her Cultural Day in Calabar. In an ex-parte motion brought before the court, in Suit No. HC/MSC. 207/2022, by Agu Onyekachi, Raymond Atulomah and David Ihesiulo…
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Rose Bassey, former Cross River State Accountant General, was yesterday kidnapped by yet to be identified persons on the Iwuru to Uyanga stretch of the Ikom/Calabar highway, gradually becoming notorious for very recent kidnappings for ransom. Family sources who spoke with www.calitown.com revealed that she was in company of her driver and mechanic, between the…